Dull 15 Description of stone

Event ID 1012842

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Dull 15 (St Adomnan), Perthshire, cross-slab fragment

Measurements:

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NN 80629 49165

Present location: re-used in the east gable of Dull church.

Evidence for discovery: found in 1989 by Niall Robertson.

Present condition: broken and weathered.

Description

This appears to be a central portion from a cross-slab, probably recumbent, with the outline of a long shaft incised upon it.

Date: eighth or ninth century.

References: DES 1989, 64.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016